Re: assorted gnome-core patches

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > oaf-slay kills all processes that contain the name of an executable
> > that could be launched by oaf somewhere on their command lines.
> 
> Thats poor implementation mostly. If oafd itself wrote proper lock files
> it could clean them up. 
>
> Let me ask a dumb question - why is the problem hard, why cant oaf die 30
> seconds after the last connect to it, or when something like
> ".gnome/active-sessions/[magicid]" vanishes and it notices ?

One of the problems is that when oaf quits/dies it forgets which servers 
it started, so when it starts again it starts new versions of them. This 
royally screws all "singelton style" servers.

/ Alex